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384 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
Cloaks, which the men wear, are made either from thick cloth, commonly called
Badmel, or from kerfey, or of the hides of their full-grown rein-deer, or from the young
of the fame animal, of a grey colour. Cloaks from the cloth dadme/ are in Lapland
called Gagges-Kafte ; which alfo as the tunics, of which I made mention, are made with
a {tiff collar, covering the whole neck to the fhoulders, ornamented with a variety of
coloured threads, for the diftinétion of the wearer. And as the tunic, made from fheep
ikin, in the form of a fhirt, is entire from below, and open in the bofom, and trimmed
with kerfey or fome fuch cloth, it does not agree with the cloak in the fame manner.
Over each fhoulder a flip of cloth, which is either plain or party-coloured, of kerfey, or
fome other cloth of a varied colour. ‘The lower extremity is embellifhed with a fringe,
adorned and diverfified with threads of different colours, called in Lapland Lu/kuldac.
Under the neck is a button, to clofe the aperture of the cloak. Cloaks of ker/ey, or
made even of other cloth, are called Ker/ey-Kafte and Ladde-Kafte, in the Lapland
language,
Gates of this kind, like the cloak juft mentioned, are made from a very coarfe
cloth, called Badmel ; but if entire from the loweft part, open in the breaft, with a very
narrow fringe coming round that aperture, they are finifhed with ker/ey, or with fome
other cloth different from the colour of the cloak: fuch like trimmings come round
the fleeves, and a {tiff collar about the neck, variegated with a twilted thread. A border
is thrown round the fhoulders, of a colour different from the reft of the garment. A
fringe‘ornaments the lower extremity, of a colour different from the garment ; fo that if
the cloak is of a red colour, the colour of the border is yellow, white, or green: under
the neck is a button which clofes the opening. In their cloaks and breeches they have,
like other nations, no pockets; in the room of which they carry in their bofom a little
leathern bag, called Niv/ak-Gierdo, where they put up a tinder-box, which they are
never without, and other commodities, of which they make daily ule.
In Finmark the cold, which is the moft fevere imaginable, prevails in winter; for, to
pafs over other inftances, it will be to my purpofe to mention that the lakes and rivers
are fo frozen up with cold, that the ice has been known to increafe two ells and a half
in thicknefs. It is not undeferving of note, that ice of itfelf is more condenfed by the
cold than when covered with fnow ; for from the incumbent height of it, it is kept, as it
were, from its attack, and defended againft the inclemency of cold. ‘Yo this pervading
and almoft unufually felt degree of coldnefs, is to be afcribed the reafon of the inha-
bitants of l’inmark cloathing themfelves with the fkins of beatts.
The cloak made from the fkin of the rein-deer when grown, is called in Lapland
Pack. \t is made from the fkin of the female, which the Norwegians call Sim/e, the
fhaggy fide being turned out, which gives the cloaka horrid and unfightly look. This
kind of garment is not as others open at the bofom, but like a veil, entire and of a piece
nearly to theneck. About the neck is a border made from the fhaggy part of the hide,
which the Laplanders call Paef-Lok. Befides, a pair of ribbands hang down, on the
extremity of which is a fiall taffel made up from fmall threds of different cloths, cut
very {mall into very little pieces: the ribbands ferve for the purpofe of lightening the
cloak. It is ornamented too, as the above garments, with a high collar, mounting up
to the ears, made out of the undrefled hide of the rein-deer, as is the cloak itfelf. This
the Laplanders ufe as a mantle ; for if on their maritime excurfions, as it frequently
happens, they fhould be {prinkled with the brine of the fea, when they come on fhore
they roll themfelves inftantly in the fnow, that the falts, fo injurious to the garment,
may by this means be extracted.
The mountain Laplander, for his comfort, and for keeping off the cold on his jour-
ney,
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